PICTURES of Donkey Derbies on the beach and long, hot summers have brought back sweet memories to our readers.

Classic black and white photographs such as this one of a Donkey Derby on the beach at sunny Rhyl, in 1960, were published in the Daily Post and have now been brought together in a book entitled Way We Were.

Generations of readers can now relive those balmy, eternally sunny days in our first, new 84-page Daily Post picture collection.

The book, which sells for £3.99, is available at local bookshops.

The photographs hark back to a world which was calmer, less hectic place, where bobbies rode around on bikes, schoolboys gave up their seats on buses to anyone over age 21 and every Christmas was white.

Our picture archive has recorded almost every single significant moment in the life of North Wales and its visitors, from one decade to the next.